piglet42
@piglet42.bsky.social
I'm interested in politics, media, climate change, energy policy, science. USA, Germany, Switzerland, Europe in general, more USA.
Ich schreibe auf Deutsch and in English.
I'm in the fediverse: https://troet.cafe/@piglet
Ich schreibe auf Deutsch and in English.
I'm in the fediverse: https://troet.cafe/@piglet
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piglet42
@piglet42.bsky.social
· Dec 6
Trumps Kulturkrieg und aggressive Identitätspolitik haben ihm zum Sieg verholfen. Eine Linke, die die Ursachen für das Scheitern der Demokraten nur in ihrer Wirtschaftspolitik sieht, hat laut unserem Autor nichts dazugelernt.
Sie wollen Dominanz und Tradition
Trumps knappen Wahlsieg auf ökonomische Faktoren zurückzuführen, greift zu kurz. Die Linke muss der Realität ins Auge sehen, dass ein grosser Teil der Bevölkerung Trump nicht trotz, sondern wegen sein...
daslamm.ch
“Der Trumpismus ist keine gewöhnliche Rechtspartei, sondern Ausdruck einer internationalen oligarchisch-faschistischen Allianz, die den Nachkriegskonsens aufgekündigt hat und die liberale Demokratie für eine Zumutung hält, der ein Ende gesetzt werden muss.”
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
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Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
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Die NDR-Tochter Studio Hamburg hat Set-Teile für das rechte Hetzmedium Nius gebaut. Der NDR schweigt, dabei hat er einen antifaschistischen Auftrag!
NDR-Tochter arbeitet für Nius: Wo ist die öffentlich-rechtliche Antifa?
Die NDR-Tochter Studio Hamburg hat Set-Teile für das rechte Hetzmedium Nius gebaut. Der NDR schweigt, dabei hat er einen antifaschistischen Auftrag!
taz.de
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Die NDR-Tochter Studio Hamburg hat Set-Teile für das rechte Hetzmedium Nius gebaut. Der NDR schweigt, dabei hat er einen antifaschistischen Auftrag!
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Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
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I’m going to say this again: if you argue that the last five years aren’t the best time to be an American, in terms of material wealth, then IT IS INCUMBENT ON YOU TO SAY WHICH TIME WAS THE BEST TIME.
Otherwise you’re arguing by reference to hazy, indistinct nostalgia - basically the MAGA trick.
Otherwise you’re arguing by reference to hazy, indistinct nostalgia - basically the MAGA trick.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m going to say this again: if you argue that the last five years aren’t the best time to be an American, in terms of material wealth, then IT IS INCUMBENT ON YOU TO SAY WHICH TIME WAS THE BEST TIME.
Otherwise you’re arguing by reference to hazy, indistinct nostalgia - basically the MAGA trick.
Otherwise you’re arguing by reference to hazy, indistinct nostalgia - basically the MAGA trick.
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Das ging schneller als gedacht & freut uns wahnsinnig!
Das Gericht hat uns eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die beiden #FPÖ nahen Medien RTV & infodirekt zugesprochen. Sie hatten während einer monatelangen Kampagne gegen uns herabwürdigende #Deepfakes von @bohrn-mena.at erstellt und verbreitet. 🧵
Das Gericht hat uns eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die beiden #FPÖ nahen Medien RTV & infodirekt zugesprochen. Sie hatten während einer monatelangen Kampagne gegen uns herabwürdigende #Deepfakes von @bohrn-mena.at erstellt und verbreitet. 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Das ging schneller als gedacht & freut uns wahnsinnig!
Das Gericht hat uns eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die beiden #FPÖ nahen Medien RTV & infodirekt zugesprochen. Sie hatten während einer monatelangen Kampagne gegen uns herabwürdigende #Deepfakes von @bohrn-mena.at erstellt und verbreitet. 🧵
Das Gericht hat uns eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die beiden #FPÖ nahen Medien RTV & infodirekt zugesprochen. Sie hatten während einer monatelangen Kampagne gegen uns herabwürdigende #Deepfakes von @bohrn-mena.at erstellt und verbreitet. 🧵
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Available as always to talk about the imperial boomerang on your podcast or TV show or just show up at your house and talk at your dinner guests
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Available as always to talk about the imperial boomerang on your podcast or TV show or just show up at your house and talk at your dinner guests
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Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Inoculating the fascist body against contamination
Inoculating the fascist body against contamination - Lawyers, Guns & Money
MAHA is just very lightly repacked eugenics: In the event of a sudden pandemic, what should we do? This month, Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, offered a remarkably blunt answer: nothing. It’s been nearly six years now since the United States’ first reported cases of Covid-19, and the country is […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Inoculating the fascist body against contamination
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Summary of the Witkoff-Gate.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Summary of the Witkoff-Gate.
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Die AfD brüstet sich damit, "offene Kanäle" nach Russland zu pflegen. Das zeigt mal wieder, welche Gefahren von der AfD für 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 ausgehen & wie wichtig unsere Unterstützung für die #Ukraine ist.
Wir stehen auch deswegen an ihrer Seite: Für Europa, Frieden & Freiheit!
Wir stehen auch deswegen an ihrer Seite: Für Europa, Frieden & Freiheit!
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Die AfD brüstet sich damit, "offene Kanäle" nach Russland zu pflegen. Das zeigt mal wieder, welche Gefahren von der AfD für 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 ausgehen & wie wichtig unsere Unterstützung für die #Ukraine ist.
Wir stehen auch deswegen an ihrer Seite: Für Europa, Frieden & Freiheit!
Wir stehen auch deswegen an ihrer Seite: Für Europa, Frieden & Freiheit!
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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We learned ~nothing from the Global Financial Crisis
The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?
New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We learned ~nothing from the Global Financial Crisis
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For decades, researchers expressed reservations about the impact of coffee. But over the last 15 years, research is rejecting the old criticisms. Coffee strengthens the heart, extends life, prevents arrhythmias—and possibly also protects against dementia, diabetes, depression and Parkinson's.
Kaffee: Vorteile für Herzgesundheit und Lebensverlängerung
Kaffee hat sich von einem umstrittenen Getränk zu einem gesundheitlichen Alleskönner entwickelt. Studien zeigen, dass der Konsum das Risiko für Vorhofflimmern senkt und das Wohlbefinden verbessert. Ge...
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
For decades, researchers expressed reservations about the impact of coffee. But over the last 15 years, research is rejecting the old criticisms. Coffee strengthens the heart, extends life, prevents arrhythmias—and possibly also protects against dementia, diabetes, depression and Parkinson's.
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
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In Canada, the realization that, with Trump at the helm, America is an enemy, not an ally, is slowly setting in.
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
In Canada, the realization that, with Trump at the helm, America is an enemy, not an ally, is slowly setting in.
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A 46-person list of donors from the orange felon’s MAGA transition has been revealed to include billionaires and crooks that he ended up putting in positions of power within the US govt.
As expected. Everything surrounding him is corrupt, evil, immoral and incompetent.
As expected. Everything surrounding him is corrupt, evil, immoral and incompetent.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A 46-person list of donors from the orange felon’s MAGA transition has been revealed to include billionaires and crooks that he ended up putting in positions of power within the US govt.
As expected. Everything surrounding him is corrupt, evil, immoral and incompetent.
As expected. Everything surrounding him is corrupt, evil, immoral and incompetent.
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Bestechung im Oval Office? Die grünen Politiker:innen Greta Gysin und @raphaelmahaim.bsky.social zeigen das «Team Switzerland» bei der Bundesanwaltschaft an.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und @ksurber.bsky.social
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und @ksurber.bsky.social
Korruptionsvorwurf: Grüne zeigen «Team Switzerland» an
Haben sich die Schweizer Unternehmer, die US-Präsident Donald Trump reich beschenkt haben, der Bestechung schuldig gemacht? Das muss nun die Bundesanwaltschaft untersuchen.
www.woz.ch
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Bestechung im Oval Office? Die grünen Politiker:innen Greta Gysin und @raphaelmahaim.bsky.social zeigen das «Team Switzerland» bei der Bundesanwaltschaft an.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und @ksurber.bsky.social
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und @ksurber.bsky.social
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"One of the arguments put forward by the barrister for Palestine Action was, if the suffragettes were around today this govt would be banning them as a terrorist group using the same law"
Lucy Masoud on the proscription of Palestine Action.
Lucy Masoud on the proscription of Palestine Action.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"One of the arguments put forward by the barrister for Palestine Action was, if the suffragettes were around today this govt would be banning them as a terrorist group using the same law"
Lucy Masoud on the proscription of Palestine Action.
Lucy Masoud on the proscription of Palestine Action.
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While consultants try to convince us that progressive policies are too left for mainstream: have you considered that the problem with male voters isn’t really about some fundamental disconnect between liberals and masculinity, but the massive disinfo apparatus built to manufacture one?
X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
While consultants try to convince us that progressive policies are too left for mainstream: have you considered that the problem with male voters isn’t really about some fundamental disconnect between liberals and masculinity, but the massive disinfo apparatus built to manufacture one?
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece: